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One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich (film)
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Wikipedia article
'One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich' is a 1970 biographical drama film based on the novel by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn with the same name.
Plot
The film stars Tom Courtenay as the title character, a prisoner in the Soviet gulag system in the 1950s who endures
a long prison sentence. It tells of a routine day in his life.
Cast
*Tom Courtenay as Ivan Denisovich Shukhov
*Espen Skjnberg as Tiurin
*Alf Malland as Fetiukov
*Frimann Falck Clausen as Senka
*Jo Sknberg as Gopchik
*Odd Jan Sandsdalen as Eino
*Torstein Rustdal as Vaino
*James Maxwell as Captain
*Alfred Burke as Alyosha
*Eric Thompson as Tsetzar
*John Cording as Pavlo
*Matthew Guinness as Kilgas
*Roy Bjrnstad
*Paul Connell
*Sverre Hansen
*Wolfe Morris
*Kjell Stormoen
*Caspar Wrede
Reception
Roger Greenspun, in a respectful but unenthusiastic review for 'The New York Times', spoke highly of the cinematography, the "intelligent exploitation of realistic locations," and "estimable performances" by Courtenay and Skjonberg, but said that the movie carries "the aura of an almost official view of high quality, as if this were how an important movie made from an important novel ought to look."
Banned in Finland
Finnish film director Jrn Donner tried to get the film to Finland, but the Finnish Board of Film banned the showing of the film. In 1972, Donner complained to the Supreme Administrative Court of Finland. The Supreme Administrative Court voted for the banning 54 on 28 February 1972. In 1972 and 1974, Swedish television showed the film, and the Swedish television mast in land was shut down during the movie to prevent Finns from seeing the film.
The director of the Finnish Board of Film, Jerker Eeriksson, said that the ban of the film was political because it harmed FinnishSoviet relations. The director, Caspar Wrede, who then lived in England, refused to campaign against the ban to avoid bad publicity abroad.
The film was shown in Finland in 1993 and 1994 in the Orion movie theater in Helsinki, as well as in the cinema club in Vaasa. Finnish television showed the film in 1996 on the TV1 YLE channel.
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